This is so outrageous I shouldn't even be giving it time and space. But read this filth and ask why this kind of thinking continues in our culture.
"Pastors Blame Wildfires on Christian Women Who Wear Pantsuits and Hats: Also to blame were abortion, a same-sex kiss, and exposed breasts.
July 1, 2013"
Religious people, if you don't denounce this belief system, then I have an obligation to denounce religions.

Pastors Blame Wildfires on Christian Women Who Wear Pantsuits and Hats
Also to blame were abortion, a same-sex kiss, and exposed breasts.
July 1, 2013 |

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This is the kind of crap I expect out of islamic mullahs, who seem to think that women with exposed breasts may give rise to tectonic plate shifts on the order of 8.0 on the Richter scale ... but then, as that great philosopher and shrimp boat captain said, and more than once:

Same sex love, libertine women, exhibitions of the human body. All could lead to plagues, droughts, the blotting out of the sun, nuclear war, and ingrown toenails. We have to be ever vigilant and stamp out this profligate and lecherous behavior lest our old, white, Republican, gated and Christian communities be flooded with people of color, freethinkers, and the debauched who will destroy marriage, the family, civilization, and cause Johnson grass to appear on the fairways at the country club. In the meantime, we need to get back to raping the environment for fun and profit while having an affair with our best friend and neighbor's spouse right after going to our mega church.

Joan, Where's the orginal source? I want to see it in all its psychotic glory.

On the contrary, I believe atheists MUST uncover and expose this crap, over and over. Publicize the ignorance. Cover it with shame and ridicule. Scapegoating is one of religion's most vile practices (Jews caused the plague by poisoning the wells), and it must never be allowed to go unanswered. I don't mind if these loonies rave from within a padded cell. But they are public figures and drag a lot of weak minds down with them.

Alan, I am sorry I failed to put the citation in. Glad I copied the title so I could find the original.
Thanks.
Pastors Blame Wildfires on Christian Women Who Wear Pantsuits and Hatshttp://www.alternet.org/christian-wildfires

In The Republican Brain, Chris Mooney cites research that shows conservatives need closure more than liberals.

Mooney's Chapter Three, on Political Personalities, goes into detail. In situations where liberals see ambiguities and use nuances to resolve them, Mooney says conservatives see problems they resolve quickly. They give themselves ill-considered explanations.

Really, it's not weirdness at all, Tom. It's the child's expectation of logic where there may be none. And like it or not, too many republicans are or certainly act like CHILDREN. As I have said many times, they want things simple, straightforward, without complication or nuance. They want black and white, not a gray scale. Apparently in this case, they're willing to acknowledge an explanation so improbable as to be ridiculous, but its simplicity satisfies the aforementioned equation, so they run with it.

Not that long ago, John McCain made a similar statement regarding the putative christian origins of this country in a statement he doubtless knew was false, but made for his own political survival. This is what the GOP has been reduced to: a bunch of children, believing in ghosts and goblins, yet hoping they don't get caught. And because no one has had the guts to call them on their make-believe, they've gotten away with it.